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A Face for Human Rights in Iran.
It is now 4 years ago, since the disputed elections of June 12^th 2009. The whole world has been watching the violent crackdown on demonstrations, the arrests, rape and torture, forced confessions, intimidation and brutal violations of human rights against the Iranian people.

We urge the Iranian authorities:

- To repeal laws which criminalize the legitimate exercise of the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly and bring them in line with international standards.

- To release, immediately and unconditionally, all prisoners of conscience: those imprisoned because of their political, religious or other conscientiously-held beliefs, their ethnic origin, their language, their national or social origin, their sexual orientation or other status and who have not used or advocated violence or hatred.

- To take immediate measures to end the practice of excessive use of force and violence by police, Basij paramilitaries or other government agents against those exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly.

- To end all forms of torture and other ill-treatment in detention, including prolonged solitary confinement, and to ensure that those responsible for ordering or committing human rights violations are held to account.

- To revise the procedures for trials held in Iranian courts, including Revolutionary Courts, to ensure that they comply with international standards for fair trial.

- To end all discrimination against women, religious and linguistic minorities.

- To introduce an immediate moratorium on executions and end the cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment of flogging, stoning and hanging.

The faces collected in these actions are symbols of freedom and devoted to the people in Iran who are cruelly suppressed by their government.

People are asked in the streets if they want to join and have a picture taken of their face. By this solidarity action, we would like to send the message to those “whose voices go unheard”, that despite the fact that very little news comes out of the country we remember them and continue supporting them.

The street actions are going around in Europe in many different cities and in the US.
The posters show where people have supported the people in

Iran

. Thanks to the members of the International Organization to Support Human Rights in Iran, the International Committee for the Rights of Students&Sufis in Iran, Amnesty International and the Mothers of Laleh-Park and volunteers of other human rights organisations for

Iran

.

Please support this action. We are not stopping before the victory and freedom has arrived in

Iran

! On the page 'actions' you'll see announcements for up-coming actions.

Organising an action yourself. We would like to invite you, in case you like to volunteer for the human rights in Iran to organise an action in your city. You can contact us anytime for advise at iophri.fr(a)gmail.com.